Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

About Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

Dr. Ashraf Ramelah is the founder and president of Voice of the Copts, a human rights nonprofit organization 501 (c) (3). The organization has offices in Italy and the United States. Dr. Ramelah is dedicated to the Coptic cause and believes that his life’s mission is to speak up for the oppressed Copts who cannot speak up for themselves. When he is not meeting with political figures and policy makers, Dr. Ramelah spends his time travelling throughout the country giving talks about the Coptic issue and explaining to the West the oppression against the Copts in Egypt. Dr. Ramelah was invited to address the European Parliament (2010) and to be the keynote speaker in the Italian Parliament (2011) on the issue of Coptic persecution in Egypt. He has done various interviews with Italian newspapers and appears frequently in the Italian and Arab Media. Dr. Ramelah is a featured author at Arutz Sheva, American Thinker, Family Security Matters.com, Canada Free Press and others. Dr. Ramelah is well known to the Egyptian government due to his advocacy for the Egyptian Copts as well as for Voice of the Copts’ lawsuit against them on behalf of Muslim convert to Christianity Mr. Hegazy and his family in 2009-2010. Ashraf Ramelah also appears as an entry in the Coptic History Encyclopedia (http://www.coptichistory.org/new_page_5260.htm). Dr. Ramelah, himself a Copt, was born in Cairo, Egypt. At the age of 17, he travelled to Italy to study architecture. He graduated with a doctorate in architecture from La Sapienza – Universita’ Degli Studi di Roma,Italy. His special study is restoration of old monuments and history of architecture. His career as an architect took him to work and live in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Gabon and the USA. His personal interests are Egyptology and Coptic history in the period after the Arab invasion of Egypt in 651 AD. Voice of the Copts is dedicated to bringing fair, correct and balanced information to the entire world regarding Copts and Christians in countries with an Arab-Muslim majority.

ISIS had ‘perfect’ ingredient to build huge dirty bomb in Mosul

By | 2017-07-24T22:04:54-04:00 July 24th, 2017|Islam, News|

Iraqi forces find unused cobalt-60 machines after taking back city, ISIS failed to discover. By Mordechai Sones – Arutz Sheva ISIS terrorists nearly stumbled on the main ingredient for a "dirty bomb" when they overran Mosul in 2014, reports the Mail Online. Two caches of cobalt, a metallic substance with lethally high levels of radiation, were found

Terror attack on Israeli embassy official in Jordan

By | 2017-07-24T15:11:37-04:00 July 24th, 2017|Islam, News|

Senior embassy official wounded in terror attack in Jordanian capital. Terrorist shot and killed. By David Rosenberg – Arutz Sheva An Israeli security official serving in the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, was wounded Sunday night when he was attacked by a terrorist in his home adjacent to the embassy. Two Jordanian men were killed

Abbas suspends security coordination with Israel

By | 2017-07-24T00:02:36-04:00 July 24th, 2017|Islam, News|

PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas cancels security meetings between Israeli and Arab officials following Hamas terror attack in Halamish. BY JTA – Arutz Sheva JTA - Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas canceled scheduled security coordination meetings between Israeli and Palestinian officials. The meetings were cancelled on Sunday, two days after Abbas announced that PA leaders have frozen

Arab League: Israel is ‘playing with fire’ on Temple Mount

By | 2017-07-23T21:36:31-04:00 July 23rd, 2017|Islam, News|

Arab League threatens a 'crisis with the Arab and Muslim world' over Israel's increased security measures on the Temple Mount. By AFP -  Arutz Sheva Staff The Arab League on Sunday accused Israel of "playing with fire" with its installation of new security measures on the Temple Mount, including metal detectors and cameras. "Jerusalem is

Hamas welcomes Samaria terrorist attack

By | 2017-07-23T21:22:29-04:00 July 23rd, 2017|Islam, News|

Hamas says attack in Halamish was justified in wake of Israel's action at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. By Ben Ariel, Canada - Arutz Sheva The Hamas terrorist organization welcomed Friday evening’s terrorist attack in the Shomron community of Halamish, in which three Israelis were murdered in the middle of their Shabbat dinner. The organization said in a statement

Halamish terrorist identified with Hamas

By | 2017-07-23T21:09:12-04:00 July 23rd, 2017|Islam, News|

Arab terrorists brandish knives -Abed Rahim Khatib -Flash 90 Before carrying out murderous attack in Halamish, terrorist wrote on Facebook: There's no life after what you see at Al-Aqsa. By Elad Benari, Canada – Arutz Sheva  Omar al-Abed, the terrorist who murdered three Israelis in a stabbing attack in the community of Halamish on Friday

Abbas freezes contacts with Israel

By | 2017-07-23T20:26:43-04:00 July 23rd, 2017|News|

PA chairman freezes contacts with Israel over its new security measures at the Temple Mount. By Elad Benari, Canada – Arutz Sheva Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced on Friday he was freezing contacts with Israel over its new security measures at the Temple Mount. Abbas said in a speech that the freeze would

Egypt to Israel: Stop the escalation

By | 2017-07-23T20:15:25-04:00 July 23rd, 2017|News|

Egyptian Foreign Ministry blames Israel for clashes in Jerusalem, urges it to “stop the escalation”. By Elad Benari, Canada – Arutz Sheva The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Friday blasted Israel over the clashes in Jerusalem and the area, urging the Jewish state to “stop the escalation”. In a statement, Cairo called on Israel "to prefer

Jordanian MP praises soldier who killed Israeli schoolgirls

By | 2017-07-23T00:39:41-04:00 July 23rd, 2017|Islam, News|

Jordanian member of parliament says Ahmed Daqamseh, who carried out shooting attack in 1997, is a hero. By Elad Benari – Arutz Sheva A Jordanian member of parliament has praised soldier Ahmed Daqamseh, who in 1997 shot dead seven Israeli schoolgirls, as a hero, i24news reported Thursday. Dima Tahboub, a spokeswoman for the Islamic Action Front which

Kuwait expels 15 Iranian diplomats

By | 2017-07-23T00:24:41-04:00 July 23rd, 2017|News|

Flag of Kuwait -Thinkstock Kuwait asks 15 Iranian diplomats to leave the country. Iran threatens to reciprocate. By Ben Ariel – Arutz Sheva on Thursday asked 15 Iranian diplomats to leave the country, angering Iran which threatened to reciprocate. A senior Kuwaiti official had earlier told AFP that the 15 diplomats had been asked to